[SmithL]

That's what happens when you let actors and rock stars set world-wide environmental policy

[Thebaddog]

No scientist, or doctor, should ever state a study result as fact with a straight face. Their findings get turned over more than leaves in a mulch pile.

[Vaquero]

The Greens and the Reds(the same thing)wont be happy to all capitalism is wiped from the face of the earth. It is called incrimentalism...and it is a dastardly plot.

[UB355]

I worked in the mobile AC business during the switch from Freon. The whole thing was simply a money grubbing scheme on the part of the signatories. "We have placed a heavy and rising tax on manufacture of CFCs, and just last month raised that tax yet again. " http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/montreal/05.htm

[Citizen Tom Paine]

It is my unstudied opinion that no reputable scientists has ever stated how CFCs that i use in my car air conditioner in upper New York State makes in to the stratosphere over Antarctica to interact with the O3 when the sun shines on it.

In fact, I am interested in the general problem of atmospheric interchange between the northern and southern hemisphere if someone can point me to some references.

[ElkGroveDan]

This reminds me of the drive toward rechargeable batteries in the 1990s in order to save allegedly scarce landfill space. Of course rechargeable batteries then were made from cadmium, a highly toxic metal. Demand soared and "the environment" started to see more cadmium dropped about here and there.

Most of it is only of theoretical concern or garbage altogether. I love seeing leftists wet themselves over their own imaginary fears.

[Alex1977]

[syncked]

Summary: The know-it-alls didn't.
Nonetheless, we're supposed to accept that NOW they do know exactly what the future holds.

[goldstategop]

Liberals want us to swelter in the heat without air conditioning. Gotta love the irony there!

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)

[EGPWS]

That's what happens when you let actors and rock stars set world-wide environmental policy

That's because most of them are liberal and the Dogma of liberalism is to fend off a non-issue only to create a bigger one to further promote their cause of fear mongering.

[Professional Engineer]

In theory, the ban should have helped both problems. But the countries that first signed the Montreal Protocol 17 years ago failed to recognize that CFC users would seek out the cheapest available alternative.

They didn't seek counsel with Captain Obvious. What maroons.

[Fresh Wind]

These chemicals, too, act as a reflective layer in the atmosphere that traps heat like a greenhouse.

Wouldn't they also act as a refelective layer for incoming sunlight, thereby causing Global Cooling?

[marblehead17]

ping

[sully777]

My new A/C units for home and car SUCK SUCK SUCK. IRC the gases used to cool are more poisonous than freon for the environment.

[ConservativeMind]

And they wonder why it's warming?

[Outland]

"These chemicals, too, act as a reflective layer in the atmosphere that traps heat like a greenhouse."

A greenhouse doesn't work like this at all.  What idiots.

The glass in a greenhouse let's sunlight enter, but traps heated air by preventing convection of the air to the outside. There is a minimal effect of reflection from the inside surface of the glass, but not enough to trap significant heat at night (which is why many greenhouses in cooler areas are heated).. Any coating on the glass that would reflect infrared back to the inside of the greenhouse would also block much of it from entering.